Saw this and thought of you!

I was intrigued Chris, so I took to Google and found this article on Wikipedia about the Acoustic Kitty project used by the CIA to spy on foreign Embassies.


And a cat video too... ?

 

That's because although we have worked out parallel universes exist, we haven't worked out how to get into one and return to tell the tale. ?


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No, nothing like! I have to say that cats appeal to me and in an ideal world, we would not have 'vivisection'. However, I have no problem with the ethics of rearing a beast for the sole purpose of eating it (preferably Devon Red beef) and I accept that the consensus is that it is acceptable to use animals for experiments which lead to advances in medicine.


So that said, what I saw was a cat used as a microphone, or more specifically, an ear of an anaesthetised cat used as a microphone.


Why, you may ask, would anybody want to do that?


Well, the experiment showed that an ear (at least a mammalian ear) converts sound waves into electrical waves in the same way that an ordinary inanimate microphone does.